H1350: גָּאַל
gâʼal · pronounced gaw-al' · “to redeem: redeem”
Definition
to be the next of kin (and as such to buy back a relative's property, marry his widow, etc.)
KJV translates it as: [idiom] in any wise, [idiom] at all, avenger, deliver, (do, perform the part of near, next) kinsfolk(-man), purchase, ransom, redeem(-er), revenger.
Word origin: a primitive root, to redeem (according to the Oriental law of kinship), i.e.
Extended definition
1) to redeem, act as kinsman-redeemer, avenge, revenge, ransom, do the part of a kinsman
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to act as kinsman, do the part of next of kin, act as kinsman-redeemer
1a1a) by marrying brother's widow to beget a child for him, to redeem from slavery, to redeem land, to exact vengeance
1a2) to redeem (by payment)
1a3) to redeem (with God as subject)
1a3a) individuals from death
1a3b) Israel from Egyptian bondage
1a3c) Israel from exile
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to redeem oneself
1b2) to be redeemed
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H1350 is translated
- the avenger of ×12
- he will redeem ×8
- your ×8
- you ×6
- it will be redeemed ×5
- it ×4
- them ×4
- a kinsman-redeemer ×3
- him ×3
- certainly if to redeem ×3
- our ×3
- kinsman-redeemer ×3
Bible verses with H1350 (gâʼal)
Gâʼal appears in 84 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 48:16
The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
- Exodus 6:6
Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
- Exodus 15:13
Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.
- Leviticus 25:25
If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.
- Leviticus 25:26
And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;
- Leviticus 25:30
And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.
- Leviticus 25:33
And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
- Leviticus 25:48
After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:
- Leviticus 25:49
Either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.
- Leviticus 25:54
And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.
- Leviticus 27:13
But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.
- Leviticus 27:15
And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his.
- Leviticus 27:19
And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.
- Leviticus 27:20
And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.
- Leviticus 27:27
And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth part of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation.
- Leviticus 27:28
Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the Lord of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the Lord.
- Leviticus 27:31
And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.
- Leviticus 27:33
He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.
- Numbers 5:8
But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the Lord, even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him.
- Numbers 35:12
And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.
- Numbers 35:19
The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.
- Numbers 35:21
Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.
- Numbers 35:24
Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:
- Numbers 35:25
And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.
- Numbers 35:27
And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:
All 84 references
- Deuteronomy 19:6
- Deuteronomy 19:12
- Joshua 20:3
- Joshua 20:5
- Joshua 20:9
- Ruth 2:20
- Ruth 3:9
- Ruth 3:12
- Ruth 3:13
- Ruth 4:1
- Ruth 4:3
- Ruth 4:4
- Ruth 4:6
- Ruth 4:8
- Ruth 4:14
- 2 Samuel 14:11
- 1 Kings 16:11
- Job 3:5
- Job 19:25
- Psalms 19:14
- Psalms 69:18
- Psalms 72:14
- Psalms 74:2
- Psalms 77:15
- Psalms 78:35
- Psalms 103:4
- Psalms 106:10
- Psalms 107:2
- Psalms 119:154
- Proverbs 23:11
- Isaiah 35:9
- Isaiah 41:14
- Isaiah 43:1
- Isaiah 43:14
- Isaiah 44:6
- Isaiah 44:22
- Isaiah 44:23
- Isaiah 44:24
- Isaiah 47:4
- Isaiah 48:17
- Isaiah 48:20
- Isaiah 49:7
- Isaiah 49:26
- Isaiah 51:10
- Isaiah 52:3
- Isaiah 52:9
- Isaiah 54:5
- Isaiah 54:8
- Isaiah 59:20
- Isaiah 60:16
- Isaiah 62:12
- Isaiah 63:4
- Isaiah 63:9
- Isaiah 63:16
- Jeremiah 31:11
- Jeremiah 50:34
- Lamentations 3:58
- Hosea 13:14
- Micah 4:10